Blogs by jurisdiction

Brexit: Foundational Constitutional and Interpretive Principles: I

European Union, United Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human Rights

The post-referendum discourse has been marked by vibrant political and legal exchange in Parliament and the ...

Six months later: a reflection on what has changed since the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ordered an end to detention on Manus Island

Australia, Papua New Guinea, Immigration and Asylum

On 26 April 2016, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea (PNG) ruled that the detention of asylum seeker and ...

Ahmed v United Kingdom: European Court of Human Rights Still Skirting Around Jury Bias

European Convention on Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Race, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) recently handed down its long-awaited admissibility decision in Ahmed ...

Ending the Perverse Culture of Mob Justice in Nigeria

Nigeria, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Life

The failure of Nigerian criminal justice institutions and agencies to prevent mob justice or punish those who ...

Law of Peace(making) and the Promise of a New Beginning for Children

United Nations, Children's Rights, Conflict and Human Rights

The act of peacemaking may be viewed as the promise of a new beginning. It is latent within the sui generis legal ...

The Human Rights Council – Highlighted Outcomes of the 33rd Session

United Nations, Socio-Economic Rights

The three intensive weeks of the 33rd session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) concluded on 30 September 2016. ...

European Court of Human Rights to Consider Right to Education

European Convention on Human Rights, Race, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

James Rooney is one of the Oxford Human Rights Hub/Rhodes University Travelling Fellows. The Fellowship is a ...

UN Rights Experts Warn Against the Grave Threat of Unsafe Abortions

United Nations, Abortion, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual and Reproductive Rights

A group of United Nations human rights experts have called on States to repeal restrictive abortion laws and ...

Legislating for Trans Equality: Recent Developments in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Ireland, United Kingdom, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In January 2016, the House of Commons Select Committee on Women and Equalities published a landmark report on ...

The French Council of State on the Burkini – Part 2: Upholding Religious Freedom

France, Right to Freedom of Religion

In its ordinance of 26 August 2016 entitled Ligue des droits de l'homme et autres the Council of State — France’s ...

Joint Committee on Human Rights Calls on UK Government to Justify ‘Presumption to Derogate’

European Convention on Human Rights, United Kingdom, Conflict and Human Rights

The UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has written to the Secretary of State for Defence, ...

The French Council of State on the Burkini – Part 1: “Reflections on Public Order”